While attending high school, in 1969, Scott McDougall started creating concert posters and flyers for events in California's San Joaquin valley. Teaming up with Tommy Cook in 1972, this turned into a full-time job and Come Get It! Graphics was launched. Their collaborative efforts were divided between poster art and sign painting, the latter involving a fair amount of airbrush work.

The merging of these two visual mediums resulted in an interesting mix of nostalgia and psychedelia. Strongly influenced by the San Francisco poster artists of the 1960's, both artists traded licks on most of their work, sharing in hand lettering and illustration. While the poster scene was disolving, sign painting became their mainstay and illustration assignments began to trickle in.

After closing the doors of this early studio, Scott moved back to the northern California coast and shifted his direction to become a printer (both offest and letterpress). He was soon spending a lot of time again at the shop’s drawing table, using his skills of illustration and lettering to give a hand-drawn look to many of the jobs that would end up on the press. As long hours on the press began to take their toll, once again sign painting, design and illustration began to take the front seat and the printing was dropped.

In 1980, Scott and his wife Susan left California for Seattle, in hopes of a career focused in illustration. For the last 25 years, Scott has churned out illustration, lettering and design that has a traceable thread to his earliest efforts. While trading off between airbrush and hand-separated line art, his work continues to evolve and still have the essence of his graphic roots.

In 2002 Scott set the airbrush aside and began painting landscapes and seascapes of some of his favorite locales. This evolved into his "wavescape" paintings. These were featured in his first one man show of uncommissioned work at Gallery 63 Eleven in Seattle in 2005.

Scott continues to paint while accepting commissioned work. He resides in Seattle with his wife Susan and daughters Chloe and Sadie.

If you are interested in anything that you see here, please feel free to contact Scott via email:
uforick@earthlink.net

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